06-06-2015 06:35 via news.yahoo.com

Pope pushes inter-faith peace message on Sarajevo visit

Pope Francis makes a one-day visit to Bosnia on Saturday aimed at bolstering reconciliation between Serb, Croat and Muslim communities. The trip to Sarajevo comes 20 years after the end of a 1992-95 war that ripped the Balkan state apart and left it permanently divided along ethnic lines. Adding to security jitters, Islamists claiming to be members of the Islamic State (IS) group called for jihad in the Balkans in a video widely reported Friday by local media, although there appeared to be no ex
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